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types of long term memory
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- 1episodic- recall events from life
- complex: ppl, place, object, behaviors interwoven to prod one memory
- conscious effort to recall - 2semantic- knowledge of world//broad facts
- not time stamped
- less personal - 3procedural- knowledge on skills
- hard to explain
- no conscious effort to recall - 4clinical evidence HM & Clive Wearing- episodic memory impaired
- semantic memories relatively unaffected
- procedural memories intact
- shows there are separate stores - 5neurological evidence Tuhing et al (1994)- got ppts to perform memory tasks while scanned using a PET scanner
- episodic & semantic memory recalled from prefrontal cortex
- increases validity - 6real life application Belleville et al (2006)- demonstrated that episodic memory could be improved in older people who had mild cog impairment
- trained ppts performed better on a test of episodic memory than control gp
- enables specific treatments to be developed
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- AS - Level Psychology (memory) Flashcards on types of long term memory, created by Neha Chakraborty on 10/05/2017.
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